Tag Archives: marc benioff

03/12/2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

A DreamForce 2010 Look Ahead

By Ben Kepes

Next week I’ll be heading (along with around 30000 of my closest friends) to San Francisco for the epicness that is DreamForce. It’s the first year I’ll be attending the event in person, having followed it remotely in its previous incarnations. In the next couple of days I ‘m going

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12/10/2010 Posted in Business 6 Comments

NetSuite Announces SuiteSocial, Takes on Salesforce Chatter.

By Ben Kepes

The big news Over the past year I’ve been on something of a crusade to get NetSuite thinking about and acting upon social inside the enterprise. Every time I run into CEO and President Zach Nelson, my standard question is an enquiry into a response to Salesforce’s Chatter product. At

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23/09/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Once the BitchSlapping is Over – On Oracle and Salesforce

By Ben Kepes

Oracle Open World was a depressingly staid affair (or so it seemed from  distance) with the one exception being the schoolyard antics of Larry Ellison and salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. For those who missed it (and how could you?) some historical back and forth is in the video below. Call

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22/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 4 Comments

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustra
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08/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

In-depth with Benioff

By Ben Kepes

A hat tip to Daniel for pointing out that Sarah Lacy got to interview Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff – you ca tell that Sarah was please as punch to have got Benioff, she even dragged out her ladylike dress, the pearls and had her hair done for the day! It’s

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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